Elm Theatre
510 Elm Street,
Camden,
NJ
08102
510 Elm Street,
Camden,
NJ
08102
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Reopened on September 24th, 1939. Ad in photo section.
Walked past the ELM everyday going to school. It was closed by the 60’s. Most narrow theater I have ever seen it was only about 30 feet wide.
From Boxoffice magazine, January 1938:
Harry Sistko, who operates the Nixon-Grand is reported getting ready to re-open the Elm Theater, Camden, shortly.
Here is a 1941 photo:
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There was a fire in the theater on 7/7/47:
Projection Booth Afire; Children Leave Theater
CAMDEN, N. J- Fifty children singing songs projected on a screen were told there was a fire in the theater’s projection booth and marched safely outside today, without interrupting their vocal harmony. Manager Morris W. Cummings discovered the fire in the 300-seat Elm Theater 25 minutes after the matinee began, hurriedly opened the exit doors and instructed the children to leave. John Armstrong, 35, of Maple Shade, N.J, projectionist, was singed by flames that spurted from film caught in the projection machine. Loss was slight.
According to Images of America: South Jersey Movie Houses, page 10, this theater closed in 1928 as a silent theater. Reopened in 1938 and operated into the late 1950s.
The 1943 edition of Film Daily Yearbook gives a seating capacity of 335.
Looks like it was an adult theater back in 1925 per this advertisement:
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